Ethan Mitchell

Co-Director of New Roots, Teacher at Pond Brook and Walden Year

Pronouns: he/him

As New Roots Co-Director, Ethan Mitchell brings over 15 years of teaching experience to the program through his involvement in the Walden Project and with various other programs throughout the state. Ethan’s focus is on history and mathematics, but he likes teaching a wide variety of subjects and is particularly skilled at pivoting from traditional teaching modalities toward more integrated and embodied approaches to learning. Ethan is an innovator; he's also a dad, an essayist, a researcher, and a dreamer. When not working with children, he spends a lot of time cooking, canning, coding, and doing construction.